[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1053747: Bug#1053747: Upload phosh to? bookworm-backports ?

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 09:24:22PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:07:57 +0200 Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?=
> <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> > Hi Praveen,
> > I'm always in favour of providing newer phosh to users but see below for
> details:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 02:33:52PM +0530, Pirate Praveen via
> Debian-on-mobile-maintainers wrote:
> > > Package: phosh
> > > Version: 0.32.0-1
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > >
> > > I think it'd be a good idea to provide new versions of phosh (with phoc,
> > > wlroots, feedbackd) via bookworm-backports. I was earlier daily driving
> > > mobian trixie on my Librem 5 but since its automatic suspend broke I
> could
> > > not continue using it [1]. So I'm using mobian bookworm but I miss the
> newer
> > > phosh (especially easy access to suspend button, which I use often for
> power
> > > saving).
> > >
> > > I have built the debs already and started using it from yesterday. I
> have
> > > shared the debs in my personal repo [2]. I'd like to upload and help
> > > maintain it in bookworm-backports if you are okay with the idea of
> providing
> > > official backports.
> >
> > I'm okay with the idea if you sign up to handle bug reports concerning
> > the backported versions. If that makes sense to you and Mobian has no
> > objections (as I think running it together with Mobian will be the main
> > use case for most people) we should maintain the backported branch in
> > the DebianOnMobile git too.
> >
> > Note that backporting phosh will imply backporting phoc at some point
> > and might also break phosh-mobile-settings at some point (and that
> > requires newer libadwaita already (which requires newer GTK). That
> > shouldn't' prevent us from backporting just now, just wanted to lay out
> > that it might get a bit more involved in the future.
> 
> I tried backporting phosh-mobile-settings now, as you mentioned it needs
> newer libadwaita, which in turn needs newer glib and gtk4. So I think gnome
> team won't like the official backports.

You can backport the *current* p-m-s version (see PureOS Crimson) without
newer libadwaita but that won't work forever.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Arnaud,
> 
> Do you think it would be a good idea to have bookworm-backports suite in
> mobian repo and upload these there?
> 
> As for bugs, I think keeping up with new upstream versions would be a good
> strategy. If I go with byzantium experience, I'd think you will support
> newer versions on crimson, so having bookworm-backports should be easier to
> maintain.
> > Cheers and thanks for having a look at this,
> >  -- Guido
> >
> > >
> > > Since pureos crimson is not yet useable, I think this would be useful
> for
> > > many who want a newer base OS.
> > >
> > > [1]
> <https://salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team/devices/librem5-support/-/issues/7>
> > > [2] <https://people.debian.org/~praveen/mobian/>
> > >
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